MacOS – How to zip from terminal without creating folder structure of path to folder

If you don't mind using the terminal you could try this:

find . -type f -exec ls -lth {} +

This will list files from current directory and all directories below, sorted by modified date. A variant not listing modification date would be:

find . -type f -exec ls -t {} +

But I believe that it would be better to just list the files that have changed the last 1440 minutes

find . -mmin -1440

Try throwing your terminal script into automators run shell script and saving as a service, then you just right click on the file and select the new service and it'll extract to your chosen destination.

there are a few other answers here https://discussions.apple.com/message/17831395#17831395

I also found a very interesting tool today called Keka, which is fantastic for creating seperate zip files from one large folder. It has an option to save to a new folder, perhaps this could help.